Radeon 550X Mobile vs GeForce GTX 980M

General info

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in performance ranking	272	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Value for money	9.51	no data
Architecture	Maxwell (2014−2018)	GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)
GPU code name	GM204	Polaris 23
Market segment	Laptop	Laptop
Release date	7 October 2014 (9 years ago)	11 April 2018 (6 years ago)
Current price	$583	$467

Value for money

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

Technical specs

General performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider their benchmark and gaming test results. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	1536	640
CUDA cores	1536	no data
Core clock speed	1038 MHz	1100 MHz
Boost clock speed	1127 MHz	1287 MHz
Number of transistors	5,200 million	2,200 million
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	unknown	50 Watt
Texture fill rate	51.84	51.48
Floating-point performance	3,462 gflops	1,647 gflops

Size and compatibility

Information on GeForce GTX 980M and Radeon 550X Mobile compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For notebook video cards it's notebook size, connection slot and bus, if the video card is inserted into a slot instead of being soldered to the notebook motherboard.

Laptop size	large	no data
Bus support	PCI Express 3.0	no data
Interface	MXM-B (3.0)	PCIe 3.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors	None	no data
SLI options	+	no data

Memory

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	4 GB
Memory bus width	256 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	2500 MHz	6000 MHz
Memory bandwidth	160 GB/s	48 GB/s
Shared memory	-	no data

Video outputs and ports

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
VGA аnalog display support	+	no data
DisplayPort Multimode (DP++) support	+	no data
HDMI	+	no data
G-SYNC support	+	no data

Technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

GameStream	+	no data
GeForce ShadowPlay	+	no data
GPU Boost	2.0	no data
GameWorks	+	no data
H.264, VC1, MPEG2 1080p video decoder	+	no data
Optimus	+	no data
BatteryBoost	+	no data
Ansel	+	no data

API support

List of supported graphics and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX	12 (12_1)	12 (12_0)
Shader Model	6.4	6.4
OpenGL	4.5	4.6
OpenCL	1.1	2.0
Vulkan	1.1.126	1.2.131
CUDA	+	no data

Advantages and disadvantages

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Recency	7 October 2014	11 April 2018
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	4 GB
Chip lithography	28 nm	14 nm

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